The explosion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to spark a 10-year critical mineral supercycle as the massive energy needs of new AI data centers will increase pressure on global supply chains already under strain to meet global net-zero targets....
Germany 100% dependent on imports for 14 of 27 critical minerals, 95% import dependent on 3 others German strategy to secure critical minerals involves new mines, billion-dollar investment, international partnerships but, strategy potentially undermined by pull of cheap minerals from...
deep-sea mining has potential to meet 35-45% of global demand for critical minerals by 2065 Google, BMW, Patagonia, Samsung, Volkswagen and Volvo have called for deep-sea mining moratorium US claims area twice seize of California containing over “50 hard minerals”,...
The US Treasury has announced that any electric battery manufactured in the US that includes components or critical minerals extracted or processed from China, or other foreign entity of concern (FEOC), will not be eligible for a US$7,500 credit from...
https://youtu.be/RwMX9Z-HNn0 The Oregon Group sits down with Nick French, a consultant with over forty years experience as a consultant in the cobalt market, to discuss the best approach to investing in cobalt. “I think it’s one of these things that...
Russia's 11 million shells fired against Ukraine in 2022 contain same amount of copper as 10% of UK's total wind turbine capacity US Department of Defense used 750,000 tons of minerals in 2017, when it faced no major military conflict...
Demand for critical minerals — including, lithium, copper, nickel and cobalt — will x4 to meet global net-zero targets by 2030, according to the latest report by IEA. Forecast supply from announced projects for critical minerals will provide between 65%-90% of...
production and processing of critical minerals more globally concentrated than oil and natural gas US completely reliant on imports for 12 critical minerals and more than 50% dependent on foreign sources for additional 31 growing geopolitical tensions and realignment has...
20 of the world's largest broad-based commodity exchange traded funds (ETFs) have seen positive net investments of US$1 billion over July-August, 2023 — after almost a year of outflows, according to Bloomberg. Over the past five quarters, the same 20 ETFs...
Australia in top 3 global reserves of in-demand critical minerals, including zinc, lithium, nickel and cobalt plans A$500 million (US$336.7 million) government investment for critical mineral projects cumulative investment between US and Australia worth more than US$960 billion It’s no...
The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will significantly increase demand for critical minerals — cobalt, lithium, nickel and copper — and it will be "very challenging" to meet this new demand, according to the latest S&P report. demand for cobalt, lithium, nickel,...
Across the US, China, and Western Europe, electric vehicle (EV) sales grew by over half in Q2 2023, compared to Q2 2022, according to a new report by PWC Strategy&. in ten major West Europe economies (inc Germany, UK, France),...
